End-gate



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.-

ABRAHAM I-I. STARK, OF BELLEVILLE, KANSAS.

END-GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 402,111, dated-April 23, 1889.

Application filed January 5, 1889. Serial No. 295,516. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABRAHAM H. STARK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Belleville, inthe county of Republic and State of Kansas, have invented a new and useful Improvement in End-Gates, of which the follow- I ing is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in end-gates for wagons; and it consists in the peculiar construction and combination of devices that will be more fully set forth hereinafter, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

The object of my invention is to vprovide an end-gate with devices whereby it may be swung open from the lower side in position for dumping, and whereby it may be swung open from the upper side in position for scoopmg.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the outer side of the end-gate, showing the same swung open from its lower end in position for dumping. Fig. 2 is a similar view from the inner side of the end-gate, showing the same in position for Y scooping. Fig. 3 is a sectional view. Fig. 4

is a detail view. Fig. 5 is a similar view.

The sides of the wagon-body A are provided near their rear ends with vertical grooves B, formed between pairs of cleats O. The endgate D is provided on its outer side, near its upper and lower edges, with transverse cleats E F, respectively.

G represents a pair of right-angled hooks that are arranged on the lower side of the cleat F, are pivoted on bolts H, which extend through the said cleat, and are adapted to engage the slots B, the projecting arms I of said hooks entering said slots. The inner arms, K, of the hooks are bent to form handles L, as shown.

M represents a pair of keys or pins, which are arranged in transverse openings in the cleat F, and havetheir upper ends doubled or bent upon themselves to form vertical arms N, which are guided in keepers O, that proj ect from the outer side of the end-gate. The

7 said hooks or pins, when the same are pushed downward, engage the openings between the handles L and arms K of hooks G, and lock raised, they clear the hooks, and the latter may be then disengagedfrom the slots, as will be readily understood.

P represents a pair of transverse bolts, which extend through the sides of the wagonbody above the upper ends of the slots B. The said bolts are provided with clampingnuts R, and the inner ends thereof project beyond the inner surfaces of the sides. On the inner side of the end-gate,near the upper corners thereof, are secured a pair of castings or frames, S, each of which has an opening, T, to which one end of a chain or link, U, is attached, and said castings or frames are further provided with pairs of ears V, arranged one above the other and provided with vertically-aligned openings W. On the inner sides of said frames or castings are vertical grooves X. The frames or castings are secured in such position on the end-gate that when the latter is in a vertical position-between the sides of thewagon-bed the pairs of ears Vwill pass on opposite sides of the bolts P.

Y represents a pair of keepers, bent substantially in the form of an inverted letter U, to provide each keeper with a long arm, Z, and a shorter arm, A. The arms A work in the openings W and the arms Z work in the grooves X. The lower ends of said arms Z are bent outward at right angles to form stops, which limit the upward movement of the keeper. When the end-gate is in a vertical position, with the arms V on the upper and lower sides of the bolts P, the keepers are lowered to cause their arms A to engage the inner sides of said bolts, and thereby secure the upper side of the end-gate, as will be readily understood.

The chainsU have their front ends attached to the bolts P, and are of such length that when the keepers Y are disengaged from the bolt and the upper side of the end-gate is swung open the end-gate will be supported at a suitable angle for scooping, as shown in Fig. 2. When the upper side of the end-gate is secured to the bolts P, the hooks G may be disengaged from the slots B and the lower side of the end-gate swung outward from the Wagon in position for dumping, as shown in Fig. 1.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 1. The combination, with the wagon-bed having the vertical slots or grooves B and bolts P at the upper ends thereof, of the endgate having the hooks G near its lower side to engage the slots 13, the frames or castings secured to the upper side of the end-gate, and keepers Y therein adapted to engage the bolts 1, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the end-gate, of the hooks G, pivoted thereto and adapted to engage the Wagon-bed, and hzwing the arms K and bent ends or handles L, and the pins in aligned openings in the said ears, snbstan- 1 tially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ABRAHAM I'l. STARK.

\Vitnesses:

T. (J. REILY, F. W. STUDLEY. 

